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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby, the comedian and actor once known as "America's Dad" for his TV role as paternal Dr. Cliff Huxtable, avoided a conviction on Father's Day weekend as a jury declared itself hopelessly deadlocked on charges he drugged and molested a woman more than a decade ago....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Can Amazon, the company that persuaded people to buy ever more items online, win enough of them over to having their fresh groceries arrive in an Amazon box?...
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has long railed against corruption and the mafia, but now the Vatican is considering developing a whole doctrine around excommunicating corrupt and mafia-tinged Catholics....
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- U.S. and Japanese vessels and aircraft searched Saturday for seven American sailors who were missing after their Navy destroyer collided before dawn with a container ship four times its size off the coast of Japan....
LONDON (AP) -- London police on Saturday raised to 58 the number of deaths either confirmed or presumed following the horrific inferno that turned the city's Grenfell Tower public housing block into a charred hulk....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby's trial on sexual assault charges ended in a mistrial Saturday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision in a case that nevertheless helped destroy the 79-year-old comedian's image as "America's Dad."...
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It is very likely that the visit of Pope Francis to India and Bangladesh planned for the end of this year, could be postponed to next year, a prominent Indian Catholic Church leader said on Thursday. In an interview to National Catholic Reporter (NCR) on June 15, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay said that discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government about a papal visit this year have taken longer than expected. "I am beginning to lose hope about 2017," said the cardinal who is the president of both the Latin-rite bishops’ group, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), as well as the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC). "We are already in June. Even if they suddenly say, 'Come,' it is a pastoral visit ... [it] will take several months for the dioceses to prepare the people," Card. Gracias said. "It should not just be a flash in the pan, he comes and goes,&q...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Paul Poupard as his special envoy to the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the enclave of the Popes in Avignon, France.Cardinal Poupard is the president-emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Culture.He will be accompanied at the 23-25 June event by Msgr. Jean-Marie Gérard, vicar general of Avignon, and Rev. Canon Daniel Bréhier, rector of the Cathedral of Avignon.Pope Francis also sent the following letter to Cardinal Poupard (in Latin).Please find below the Pope's original letter:Venerabili Fratri NostroPAULO S.R.E. Cardinali POUPARDPraesidi emerito Pontificii Consilii de CulturaSuorum temporum variis condicionibus consideratis, Decessor Noster Ioannes XXII, qui ante fuerat etiam Archiepiscopus Avenionensis, Ecclesiae Catholicae electus Summus Pontifex, pro tempore in hac amoena Provinciae urbe sistere decrevit. Revera iam antea Praedecessor eius Clemens V ibidem suam Curiam collocaverat ipseque s...
(Vatican Radio) The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on Saturday released a communique on the conclusions of the International Debate on Corruption, which was held on Thursday in the Vatican.Organized in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Social Sciences, the debate included about 50 participants from various government and non-governmental organizations, as well as anti-mafia and anti-corruption magistrates.Cardinal Peter Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery, in describing the meeting, said, “We conceived of this meeting to face a phenomenon that leads to the trampling of the dignity of people. Therefore it is up to us, and this Dicastery, to be able to protect and promote respect for the dignity of the person. And for this reason we seek to attract attention to this matter.”Participants, the communique said, agreed that “the fight against corruption and mafias is a question not only of legality but also of civility.”It said...
